Home > DeWeese graduates from U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Power School, South Carolina

Thursday, April 25, 2013 7:30 AM

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class John R. DeWeese has graduated from the United States Navy's Nuclear Power School at Naval Nuclear Power Training Command in Goose Creek, SC.

Nuclear Power School is a six-month course that trains officer and enlisted students in the science and engineering fundamental to the design, operation and maintenance of naval nuclear propulsion plants.

Graduates next undergo additional instruction at a prototype training unit before serving as a surface warfare officer aboard a nuclear-powered surface ship or as an electronics technician aboard a nuclear-powered submarine.

DeWeese is assigned to Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, Joint Base Charleston, in Goose Creek, SC. He is a 2007 graduate of Southern Wells Junior/Senior High School, Poneto, and earned an associate degree in 2011 from Ivy Tech Community College, Fort Wayne.